Report for July (draft)

Report Date
July 2014

Report compiled by Dawn Nicholls (Programme Manager) for Liz Welch (Programme Owner)

Section 1: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Section 2: Projects Not Started

Section 3: Projects In Progress

Section 4: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

Section 5: New Approved Projects from 13/14 Annual Plan

 

 

Section 1: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update   

Commentary

6 projects closed this month: -

  • FIN093 Essential Enhancements for Finance Applications 2013/14
  • FIN088 ERA Decommissioning
  • FIN087 Credit Note / Sales Invoice Interface Changes
  • FIN096 eInvoicing
  • FIN095 Local implementation of SSO and Launchpad
  • FIN089 eAuthorisations Migration

FIN081 Document Management for Finance Applications in on AMBER due to issues on the Serengeti upgrade project which have put both Dev and Test Serengeti environments out of use

FIN097 Archiving for eFinancials in on RED as the project has been extended due to data reconcilation issues.  These issues have been resolved but the project requires additional budget to complete which has not yet been secured

  

 

 

 

Section 2: Projects Not Started

 

Project InfoProgramme Managers Commentary

 AP34

Student Fees - Interest Charging on Invoices

Compliance

Planning - September 2014

Delivery - tbc

 RAG Status - GREEN

 Plan

 

Dependencies

Need to get decision from Fee Strategy Group which meets quarterly - FIS following up on status, but agreed that the project will not start until next year now as FIS resources are allocated to other projects.

 

Section 3: Projects in Progress

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

FIN081 (12-024)

Document Management for Finance Applications

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

 

TBCDeploy to Development

TBC

Business Analysis

12-Sep-14

Document Scanning Activity Completed

26-Sept-14

Deploy to Test

17-Oct-14

Deploy to Live

31-Oct-14

Closure

 

RAG Status : AMBER

Report by Karen Stirling for July 2014

Achievements in Last period

  • Initial review with DDSR have provided dates when scanning can take place from 18th Aug and will take approx.4/6 weeks
  • Further meeting on 8th July with DDSR and Finance resource to discuss structure and attributes for scanning
  • Finance Documents Requirements have now been confirmed as 269 files to be scanned

Issues

  • Scheduled meeting with Finance and DDSR on 30th July postponed due to access issues on test environment
  • Demonstrator folder structure unable to be created due to environments issues on Dev / Test environments impacted by upgrade being completed via CMW010 Serengeti Upgrade project – awaiting resolution options from Serengeti to resolve issue. Project Manager is progressing issue with CMW010 Project Manager
  • Risk raised on project should project timescales be impacted further by CMW010 project if rollback of upgrade required – a further review of timescales would have to take place at that point.

 

Next Steps

  • Agree attributes, folder, file structure and complete business analysis
  • Commence Back log scanning via DDSR
  • Review project milestones

The project status AMBER due to environment issues impacting dev and test via CMW010 Serengeti Upgrade project

FIN086 (AP23-004)

ePay Reconciliation

Category:  Compliance

Milestones

 

17-Sep-2014Build Complete
06-Oct-2014Integration Test Signed Off
27-Oct-2014Acceptance Sign Off
05-Nov-2014Deliver
12-Nov-2014DSOR
19-Nov-2014Project Close

 

 RAG Status:  GREEN

Report by Sue Woodger for July 2014

 

Achievements in this Reporting Period

  • Revised plan was approved and accepted by WIS
  • Developer has retutned to Build (following her time on RMAS)

 

Issues

  • Still awaiting WPM file  - PM to follow up

 

Next Steps

  • Complete build by 17 Sept 14

Project is GREEN as a revised plan has been approved and is on course

 

FIN087 (AP23-058)

Credit Note/Sales Invoice Interface Changes

Category:  Discretionary

Milestones

N/A

RAG Status:  BLUE

Report by Dawn Nicholls for July 2014

Progress this period

  • The new automated interface was deployed to Live this month
  • FIS have confirmed that the interface is running as expected and have signed-off the deployment
  • Completion report was drawn up and agreed.
  • The project was closed

Issues

  • None

Next steps

  • None, project now closed

  

Full details on project activities can be seen in the Project Journal

FIN089 (34-004)

eAuthorisations Migration

Category:  Compliance & Funded

Milestones

N/A

RAG Status:  BLUE

Report by Jill Nicoll for July 2014

Achievements in last period:

  • Deployment signed off
  • Completion Report issued
  • Closure signed off

Issues:

After the end of the Phase 4 post-deployment support period, a Phase 3 post-deployment issue was raised.  The issue was reviewed with stakeholders, and two approaches were agreed:

  • a short-term measure, to clarify the application's current handling, was transferred into this year's Small Enhancements project, FIN093.
  • a long-term re-design of the application's handling will be transferred into next year's Small Enhancements project, FIN099.

With these transfers in place, this project was approved for Closure.

Next Steps:

N/A

FIN094

SAAS/SLC Reconciliation

Category: Compliance

Milestones

Target dateTitle
22-Aug-2014Integration sign-off
12-Sep-2014Acceptance sign-off
19-Sep-2014Go-live
03-Oct-2014Deployment sign-off
17-Oct-2014Closure

 RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Dawn Nicholls for July 2014

Achievements this period

  • Software build and peer testing completed
  • Build sign-off review completed

Issues

  • Decision still needed on which suspense accounts to use and how to include these in the batch header.  Decision agreed to proceed with deploy to Test so that we can demonstrate where things will currently coded in eFInancials

Next steps

  • Deployment to Test environment
  • Integration testing
  • Agree a decision of account coding

  

Full details on project activities can be seen in the Project Journal

FIN095

Local Implementation of SSO and Launchpad

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

N/A 

RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Dawn Nicholls (on behalf of Morna Findlay) for July 2014 

Achievements this period 

  • Signoff of Equalities assessment by Project Sponsor. Document sent to Equality and Diversity for Publication.
  • Live deployment of Launchpad for eAnalyser
  • Deployment sign-off
  • Closure report produced and reviewed
  • Project closed

Issues

  • N/A as project now closed

Next Steps

  • N/A  as project now closed

FIN096

eInvoicing

Category:  Funded

Milestones

N/A

RAG Status:  BLUE
Report by Jill Nicoll for July 2014
 
Achievements in last period:

UAT:

  • UAT completed, and UAT Test Plan updated with testing outcomes
  • UAT sign-off confirmed

Deployment:

  • Deployed to Live
  • Full end-to-end run of process successfully completed in Live
  • Deployment sign-off confirmed

Closure:

Issues: 

N/A

Next Steps:

N/A

FIN097

Archiving for eFinancials

Category:  Funded

Milestones 

 

Target dateTitle
11-Aug-2014Build Review
25-Aug-2014Acceptance Review
01-Sep-2014Delivery
15-Sep-2014Deployment Sign off Review
22-Sep-2014Close
 

 RAG Status :  RED

Report by Dawn Nicholls (on behalf of Morna FiIndlay) for July 2014

Achievements this period

  • Rollback of purged tables from temporary tables successfully tested.
  • Latest fix from ABS has resolved the data discrepency between the archived and purged tables 

Issues

  • Revised plan and funding still to be agreed with Project Sponsor who is currently on annual leave - project reported on RED until this is agreed 

Next Steps

  • Agree revised estimate and plan with sponsor
  • Retrospectively sign-off the build review
  • User acceptance testing

FIN098

eExpenses Replacement

Category:  Discretionary

Milestones

 

Target dateTitle
24-Oct-2014End of Development
07-Nov-2014End of Maintenance
21-Nov-2014Closure

 RAG Status:  GREEN

Report by Dawn Nicholls for July 2014

Achievements this period

Issues

  • Work on Serengeti stories cannot commence due to Serenget upgrade project (CMW010) hitting issues in Dev/Test - this has been escalated to the relevant Programme Manager and a risk raised.
  • Drilldown in eFin will require ABS work - FIS Business Rep is arranging a meeting with ABS to discuss options
  • Progress has not been as good as planned due to annual leave in the development team and unavailability of Bamboo automated deployment due to an upgrade

Next steps

  • Further development iterations.

  

Further details on project activities can be seen in the Project Journal

 

Section 4: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

FIN078

eFin Journal Auto Upload (JAMS)

Category : Discretionary 

Report by Dawn Nicholls

This project was closed on 4th October 2013

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN079

LEAN Review of Financial Systems

Category : Discretionary

Report by Dawn Nicholls

This project was closed on 24th September 2013

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN092

Corporate Planner

Category:  Compliance

Report by Anne Mathison

This project was closed on 20th December 2013

Please see the completion report for further information

AP34

Migration of BOXI reports

Compliance

Withdrawn - January 2014

AP89-008

FPM for eInvoicing

Withdrawn - January 2014

FIN092

Corporate Planner

Category:  Compliance

Closed - January 2014

FIN091

eFinancials upgrade Phase 2

Category; Compliance

Closed 31/3/14

FIN080

Customer Interface Improvements

Category : Discretionary

Report by Dawn Nicholls

This project was closed on 8th April 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN056

eInvoicing

Category: Funded

This project was closed 30th May, remaining work will be completed under FIN096.

FIN090

eExpenses Replacement Business Case

Category: Compliance

This project was closed 30th May, a project to develop new expenses software is underway under FIN098.

FIN085

eTime Phase 3

Category:  Compliance

Report by Jill Nicoll

This project was closed on 20th June 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN089 (34-004)

eAuthorisations Migration

Category:  Compliance & Funded

Report by Jill Nicoll

This project was closed on 1st August 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN095

Local implementation of SSO and Launchpad

Category: Discretionary

Report by Dawn Nicholls (on behalf of Morna Findlay)

This project was closed on 31st July 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN096

eInvoicing

Category:  Funded

Report by Jill Nicoll

This project was closed on 1st August 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN087

Credit Note / Sales Invoice Interface Changes

Category: Discretionary

Report by Dawn Nicholls

This project was closed on 1st August 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN088 (AP12-017)

ERA Decommissioning

Category:  Compliance

Report by Sue Woodger

This project closed on 31 July 14

Please see the completion report for further information

FIN093

Essential Enhancements for Finance Applications 2013/14

Category: Compliance

Report by Stephanie Ruthven

This project was closed on 1st August 2014

Please see the completion report for further information

 

Section Five: New Approved Projects from 13/14 Annual Plan

Any projects that were approved in previous annual planning rounds and have been postponed to start in 13/14 will be listed under section 2: Projects Not Started. Projects started in 12/13 but which will carry over to 13/14 are listed under section 3: In Progress

 

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

 AP34

Student Fees - Interest Charging on Invoices

Compliance

Planning -

Delivery -

 RAG Status

 Plan

 

Dependencies

 

AP34

Student Fees - SAAS and SLC Fees Reconciliation

Compliance

Planning -

Delivery -

 RAG Status

Plan

 

Dependencies

AP34

Migration of BOXI reports

Compliance

Planning -

Delivery -

 RAG Status

Plan

 

Dependencies

AP34

Essential Enhancements for Finance Applications

Compliance

Planning -

Delivery -

 RAG Status

Plan

 

Dependencies

AP34

eExpenses replacement

Compliance

Planning -

Delivery -

 RAG Status

Plan

 

Dependencies